Penha Garcia – PR 3 IDN Mills and fossils

This time we are in Penha Garcia. Una Penha García is a Portuguese parish of the council of Idanha-a-Nova and, in turn, belonging to the district of Castelo Branco. To reference it in front of Spain, we can say that it is, horizontally, after the Sierra de Gata. It is…

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Sierra de Gata – Descargamaría & Robledillo de Gata

We start another route through the Sierra de Gata. Specifically from Descargarmaría, in the Valley of the Árrago River, in the Tajo hydrographic basin. Although, together with Robledillo de Gata, Downloadmaría is one of the only two municipalities in Extremadura that have part of their territory in the Duero hydrographic…

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Majalasna – Camino Schmid – Alevines trail

We start the route at the Las Dehesas car park in Cercedilla and start walking along the Calzada Borbónica-Cañada de la Fuenfría. Further up, once we enter the limits of the Guadarrama National Park, we take the Camino Schmid that goes up us crossing the Calzada Romana and the GR-10…

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Camorritos – Acebos Fountain – Dragon Petroglyph

We start the route in Colonia de Camorritos, located in Cercedilla, a pioneering urban initiative in Madrid in the 1930s, and created to satisfy the growing demand for weekend leisure since that time. As an anecdote, it was inhabited by famous people such as César Manrique, Pedro Caba, Emilio Botín…

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Molino de la Hoz-Torrelodones-Canal del Guadarrama

We start the route in Molino de la Hoz and go up the Camino de La Isabela that takes us up to Torrelodones. We pass the train track through the oak when it is buried at the height of the Gasco and there we take the Senda Las Marías that…

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Cuerda Larga Nocturna – Sierra de Guadarrama

The Cuerda Larga is one of the main mountainous branches of the Sierra de Guadarrama with a maintained height of more than 2,100 meters above sea level. And in its night version, a classic in the summer season and more specifically around the Summer Solstice, when the day is longer…

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Valle Las Batuecas – El Chorro de las Batuecas

We start the route from the Valle de las Batuecas car park, located at PK 34.5 of the SA-201 road. And we began to walk along the Accessible Path of the Valle de las Batuecas. It is a walkway that connects the car park with the Monastery of Las Batuecas.…

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El Cabaco-Peña de Francia-El Casarito-Nava de Francia

We start the route in the municipality of El Cabaco, located in the upper basin of the Yeltes River, at the foot of the Peña de Francia. The Cabaco is included in the Batuecas National Hunting Reserve. And it is the gateway to the Las Batuecas-Sierra de Francia Natural Park…

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Puerto de Cotos and Valle de la Angostura

We start the route from the Puerto de Cotos at 1,830 meters above sea level and we leave through the plains that take us to the Arroyo de Cotos where we find a steep descent until we reach the Rio de Lozoya or de la Angostura. We continue down the…

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